Joe Colombo, Container unit Combi-Center, 1963-64. Collection Vitra Design Museum. Photo: Vitra Design Museum, Andreas Sütterlin
“The tower furniture has a dimension and a shape likely to be exploited for every home-use (…), it is a rollaway piece of furniture, a concentric container, whose use has to be planned, since it cannot contain everything, but should contain what is needed at hand, within range (…)” Vittorio Fagone and Ignazia Favata, 2011, Joe Colombo, Milano, 24 ORE Cultura, p.54), as it is defined by Joe Colombo himself.
The Combi Center, designed in 1963, is a multifunctional, roll away piece of furniture formed by overlapping cylindrical objects made by wood and frosted aluminium.
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